The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one... If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies.
作家的唯一责任是对他的艺术负责。如果他是个好作家，他会完全无情...如果一个作家必须抢劫他的母亲，他不会犹豫；
The writer must be a perpetual outsider, a critic of all power.
历史进程是不连续的，重大变革往往是突然发生的，而不是渐进的。
I tend to think that the camera is much more truthful than the human eye.
自由不过是一个变得更好的机会。